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Law

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The United States and International Law

Paradoxes of Support across Contemporary Issues

By Lucrecia García Iommi & Richard W Maass
Subjects: Law, International Law, Political Science, International Relations, Political Theory

Why U.S. support for international law is so inconsistent

Punishment and Political Order

By Keally McBride
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Law, Law and Society
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

An incisive, eminently readable study of the evolving relationship between punishment and social order

Archiving Sovereignty

Law, History, Violence

By Stewart Motha
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Law, Law and Society, African Studies, Asian Studies
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

An account of how courts repeat historical fictions that maintain sources of sovereign power.

Curating Community

Museums, Constitutionalism, and the Taming of the Political

By Stacy Douglas
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Law and Society, International Relations
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Reconsiders complex questions about how we imagine ourselves and our political communities

 

The One and Only Law

Walter Benjamin and the Second Commandment

By James Martel
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Philosophy, Law, Religion

A radical critique of contemporary legal practices and understandings based on a new consideration of Walter Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence”

Snarl

In Defense of Stalled Traffic and Faulty Networks

By Ruth A. Miller
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Law, Law and Society, Cultural Studies

It is possible to imagine a theory of democracy and a constitutional history independent of human subjectivity

The Justice of Mercy

By Linda Ross Meyer
Subjects: Philosophy, Law, Criminology, Political Science, Political Theory, Religion, International Law
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Is there room for mercy in a system of justice?

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